Gloria Swanson
Born: 1899-03-27 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: 1983-04-04
Known For: Acting
Biography
Gloria Swanson (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress. She was one of the most prominent stars during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille, made dozens of silents and was nominated for the first Acadamy Award in the Best Actress catagory. In 1929, Swanson successfully transitioned to talkies with The Trespasser. However, personal problems and changing tastes saw her popularity wane during the 1930s when she moved into Theater and TV. Today she is best known for her role as Norma Desmond, a faded silent film start, in the critically aclaimed film Sunset Boulevard (1950). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gloria Swanson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2021
- Boulevard! A Hollywood Story as Self (archive footage)
2012
2007
- Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2004
- Los Angeles Plays Itself as Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd (archive footage)
1980
- Hollywood as Self
- Men Who Rate a 10 as Self
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
1974
- Killer Bees as Madame Maria von Bohlen
- Airport 1975 as Gloria Swanson
- The Great Debate as Self
1973
- The Age of Ballyhoo as Narrator
1971
- V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self
1967
- The Carol Burnett Show as Self - Guest
1964
- The Hollywood Palace as Self
1963
- Burke's Law as Venus Hekate Walsh
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Mrs. Charlotte Heaton
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Mrs. Daniels
- The Beverly Hillbillies as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Dr. Kildare as Julia Colton
- Ben Casey as Victoria Hoffman
- The Legend of Rudolph Valentino as Self (archive footage)
- Straightaway as Lorraine Carrington
1960
- Hedda Hopper's Hollywood as Self
- When Comedy Was King as edited from 'Teddy at the Throttle' (archive footage)
1959
- The Big Party as Self
1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
1956
- The Steve Allen Show as Self
- Nero's Mistress as Agrippina
1953
1952
- This Is Your Life as Self
- Three for Bedroom C as Ann Haven
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- Sunset Boulevard as Norma Desmond
- The Golden Twenties as Self (archive footage)
1949
- Down Memory Lane as (archive footage)
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1946
- Dear Miss Gloria as Miss Gloria
1943
- Happy Times and Jolly Moments as (archive footage)
1941
- Father Takes a Wife as Leslie Collier Osborne
1934
- Music in the Air as Frieda Hotzfelt
- The Camera Speaks as Self (archive footage)
1933
- The Film Parade as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Perfect Understanding as Judy Rogers
1932
- Queen Kelly as Kitty Kelly / Queen Kelly
- Broadway Gossip No.2
1931
- Indiscreet as Geraldine 'Gerry' Trent
- Tonight or Never as Nella Vago
- The House That Shadows Built as (archive footage)
- Round About Hollywood as Self
1930
- What a Widow! as Tamarind Brook
1929
- The Trespasser as Marion Donnell
1928
- Sadie Thompson as Sadie Thompson
1927
- The Love of Sunya as Sunya Ashling
1926
- The Untamed Lady as St. Clair Van Tassel
- Fine Manners as Orchid Murphy
1925
- Madame Sans-Gêne as Catherina Hubscher
- The Coast of Folly as Joyce Gathway / Nadine Gathway
- Stage Struck as Jennie Hagen
1924
- Manhandled as Tessie McGuire
- Wages of Virtue as Carmelita
- The Humming Bird as Toinette
- A Society Scandal as Marjorie Colbert
- Her Love Story as Princess Marie
1923
- Hollywood as Gloria Swanson
- Zaza as Zaza
- Bluebeard's 8th Wife as Mona deBriac
- Prodigal Daughters as Swifty Forbes
1922
- The Impossible Mrs. Bellew as Betty Bellew
- Beyond the Rocks as Theodora Fitzgerald
- A Trip to Paramountown as Self
- My American Wife as Natalie Chester
- Her Husband’s Trademark as Lois Miller
- Her Gilded Cage as Suzanne Ornoff
1921
- Don't Tell Everything as Marian Westover
- The Great Moment as Nada Pelham / Nadine Pelham
- The Affairs of Anatol as Vivian Spencer (Anatol's wife)
- Under the Lash as Deborah Krillet
1920
- Why Change Your Wife? as Beth Gordon
- Something to Think About as Ruth Anderson
1919
- Male and Female as Lady Mary Lasenby
- For Better, for Worse as Sylvia Norcross
- Don't Change Your Husband as Leila Porter
1918
- Her Decision as Phyllis Dunbar
- Shifting Sands as Marcia Grey
- The Secret Code as Sally Carter Rand
- You Can't Believe Everything as Patricia Reynolds
- Every Woman's Husband as Edith Emerson
- Station Content as Kitty Manning
- Society for Sale as Phylis Clyne
- Wife or Country as Sylvia Hamilton
1917
- Baseball Madness as The Heiress
- Whose Baby? as The Wife
- The Pullman Bride as The Pullman Bride
- Teddy at the Throttle as Gloria Dawn
- Dangers of a Bride
- The Sultan's Wife as Gloria
1916
- Sunshine
- Hearts and Sparks as Gloria - Bobby's Sweetheart
- A Dash of Courage as The Prominent Citizen
- Haystacks and Steeples as Gloria - the Society Girl
- A Social Cub as Gloria
- The Danger Girl as The Danger Girl - Reggie's Madcap Sister
- The Nick of Time Baby as The Blacksmith's Daughter
1915
- The Misjudged Mr. Hartley as Maid
- His New Job as Stenographer (uncredited)
- At the End of a Perfect Day as Hands Bouquet to Holmes
- The Ambition of the Baron as Minor Role (uncredited)
- Sweedie Goes to College as Betty - College Girl
- The Broken Pledge as Gloria
- The Fable of the Syndicate Lover as Department Store Customer (uncredited)
- The Romance of an American Duchess as Minor Role (uncredited)
- The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket as Farina, Elvira's Daughter
1914
- The Fable of the Club Girls and the Four Times as One of the Club Girls (uncredited)